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International Conference
ECOWEEK 2009 Empowering Youth: Ecology + Leadership + Architecture
March 31 - April 6
Athens, GREECE
International Conference
ECOWEEK 2009
Empowering Youth:
Ecology + Leadership + Architecture
Under the auspices of
CITY OF ATHENS
With the support
Royal
Danish
Embassy
Media Sponsors
With the participation
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EARTHOME
PRODUCTIONS
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GREEK PREMIERE:
Award-winning documentary
"The Age of Stupid"
The new cinema documentary from Director Franny Armstrong and Oscar-winning
Producer John Battsek. Pete Postlethwaite stars as an old man living alone
in the devastated world of 2055, looking at "archive" footage from 2008,
asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
89' - English
Sunday 5 April, 18:00
Athinais (34-36 Kastorias, Votanikos-Gazi)
metro: Keramikos
Free Admission
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Films:
Oscar-winning documentary
"An Inconvenient Truth"
with Al Gore
(Peace Nobel Prize 2007)
on Global Warming and Climate Change.
97' - Greek subtitles
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"The 11th Hour"
by Leonardo DiCaprio
on Global Warming and Climate Change
92' - Greek subtitles
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"Last Call for Planet Earth"
Directed by Jacques Allard
Featuring Ivan Harbour, Thomas Mayne, Massimiliano Fuksas and other world-known
architects
70' - Greek subtitles
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"Element"
Short films by tve profiling
exceptional young people
working to promote a
greener, fairer world;
broadcast on
MTV channels globally
60' - English
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"The Next Industrial Revolution"
Directed by Shelley Morhaim
With architect William McDonough
and chemist Michael Braungart
55' - Greek subtitles
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"The Rural Studio"
Samuel Mockbee's
vision of architecture as a
catalyst for social change.
60' - English
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"Kilowatt Ours"
A documentary by Jeff Barrie
to promote energy conservation,
efficiency and renewable energy
56' - English
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"The Power of Community"
Directed by Faith Morgan
How Cuba survived the Peak Oil crisis in the 1990 with urban organic agriculture
53' - Greek subtitles
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"Architecture 2030"
Architect Ed Mazria's
challenge to reduce CO2 emissions in buildings
30' - English
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"Story of Stuff"
With Annie Leonard
on production, consumption and waste
20' - English
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ECOWEEK 2009 : CONFERENCE MATERIALS (update
26/3/09)
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DESCRIPTION
The 'ECOWEEK 2009 Empowering Youth: Ecology + Leadership + Architecture'
conference and interdisciplinary workshops in Athens, Greece, gives the
opportunity to young professionals and graduate students to work side by
side with known architects, designers, and engineers from Greece and abroad,
and to learn from them the principles and implementation of ecological building
and sustainable design.
The conference is open to young architects, designers and landscape architects
and professionals of other disciplines, and graduate students from Greece
and abroad. The conference will include public lectures and screening of
documentaries open and free to the general public.
The language of the conference: English. Some lectures will have
simultaneous translation.
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REGISTRATION
Registration opened in February 2009. To register click
here
Registration is handled by:
ERASMUS CONFERENCES TOURS & TRAVEL S.A 1, Kolofontos & Evridikis str.,
161 21 Athens, Greece Tel.:+30.210.7257693 - Fax:+30.210.7257532 E-mail:
info [at] erasmus.gr
- Website: www.erasmus.gr
For Registration click
here
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WORKSHOPS
THEME
The interdisciplinary workshops will deal with the former site of the international
airport of Athens in Hellenikon. The groups will not attempt to repeat
the international competition on the site; neither give tips to improve
the official plans for the site; neither will attempt to impose architectural
symbols and schemes from abroad. The workshops will rather attempt to re-approach
this important site for Athens and the residents of the metropolitan city,
based on ecology, locality, community and sustainability. For example, when
we speak about developing the site into housing units, these units will
have to be of zero-emissions, zero-waste and based solely on renewable energy.
When we speak about a metropolitan park, we take into consideration the
re-use (on-site) of the construction debris that will result in demolishing
all or part of the airport facilities - as Julie Bargmann puts it: 'no waste
leaves the site'.
The groups will produce three proposals (with possible variations):
(a) A Metropolitan park of zero waste and zero debris leaving the site of
the park
(b) A residential neighborhood of zero-emissions and zero-waste, and
(c) A combination of the two.
The proposals will be presented at a press conference and public discussion
at ECOTEC 09, on Monday April 6, at Expo Athens, Anthousa (please see detailed
program).
SUPPORT MATERIALS
Support materials on the workshops will be posted shortly.
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SPEAKERS & WORKSHOP LEADERS
ECOWEEK has invited in the past a number of internationally acclaimed speakers
to Athens, for example, Al Gore, to give his slide show on Global
Warming at Athens Concert Hall in June 2007 (in cooperation with Megaron
Plus), and UK Explorer and Leadership expert Robert Swan, OBE to
speak at the opening of ECOWEEK 2007 at the Benaki Museum (in cooperation
with the British Council); in 2008, at the international conference 'Ecology
+ Environment + Architecture' (in cooperation with AIAContinental Europe)
ECOWEEK invited 'green' skyscraper and author architect Ken Yeang
to speak at the Cotsen Hall of the American School of Classical Studies
in Athens, 'landscape healer' landscape designer Julie Bargmann,
director of "Last Call for Planet Earth" Jacques Allard,
prize-winning architect Alexandros Tombazis and others.
This year, ECOWEEK 2009 is honored to have the participation of:
* The program and list of speakers and workshops leaders may change
without prior notice.
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PROGRAM : CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS Venue:
Athinais (34-36 Kastorias street, Votanikos-Gazi) (metro: Keramikos)
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prior notice.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Conferences don't just happen. People work for them to happen, often very
hard, and people offer their time, expertise, ideas, enthousiasm and actual
time and work, for them to happen. We extend our deepest gratitude to all
our speakers and workshop leaders who left their very busy schedules to
be at the conference this year, to spend quality time with the young participants
of the workshops, to share their knowledge and to inspire us all. We thank
all the people who despite their busy schedules offered invaluable time,
ideas, guidance, feedback and expertise in the design, planning, programming,
logistics, layout, and content of the conference, or simply who enabled
this conference to happen thanks to their commitment, quality, and professionalism.
We thank you all!
A special 'thank you' goes to landscape designer Julie Bargmann (D.I.R.T.
Studio) who has been an inspiration throughout the conception and planning
of the conference and workshops, but due to unexpected professional reasons
Julie will not be able to join us in Athens this year .
We wish to acknowledge and thank the following for their hard work, the
commitment and enthusiasm (in alphabetical order - we apologize beforehand
in case we missed someone):
Irena Alexiadou, Katerina Alexiou, Jacques Allard, Anastasia Andritsou,
Despoina Aretaki, Dionysia-Isidora Avgerinopoulou, Evagelos Baltas, Julie
Bargmann, Jeanna Breza, Christina Chatzi, Katerina Christofilidou, Viki
Dimakakou, Theano Dioli, Thomas Doxiadis, Eleni Fagogeni, Nataly Gattegno,
Fotis Georgeles, Georgios Giavis, Panagiota Goula, Eleni Harlan, Peter Heilmann,
Dina Junkermann, Tania Kalaboki, Yiorgos Kalofolias, Nikos Konstantopoulos,
Teti Lalou, Eleni Lambadariou, Elena Lemou, Susanne Lubos, Elena Margaropoulou,
Theofilos Matsoukas, Faidra Matziaraki, Jesse Mayhew, Marianthi Mexaki,
Cynthia Mikelsen, Pinelopi Mitrogianni, Shelley Morheim, Voula Mourta, Yvette
Nahmia, Pegy Panagopoulou, Yiorgos Panetsos, Vasso Papadopoulou, Yiannis
Papaioannou, Eleni Papalouka, Yiorgos Pappas, Alexandra Papasotiriou, Heidi
Pedersen, Katerina Petraki, Katerina Psitou, Christina Rougeri, R. Sagani,
Helik Shemer, Yiannis Sifostratoudakis, Massimo Silvestre,Sotiris Skouloudis,
Theodoros Skylakakis, Yiannis Spanolios, Michael Spanos, Maria Spyridou,
Mihalis Stathakopoulos, Elena Tassioula, Alexandros Tombazis, Georgia Tsatsou,
Costas Tsipiras, Yiannis Tsipouridis, Anna Tzeortzatou, Nikos Vitatzakis,
Vassilis Yiannikos, Dimitris Varos, Andriana Vasilopoulou, Natasa Vaskoudi,
Lida Voutsina, Jack Wysocki, Katy Yakoumaki, Efi Ziotopoulou, and Olga Zissi.
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Q&A
Q: We are students from disciplines other than Architecture, Landscape
Design and Engineering. Can we participate?
A: Yes, the conferrence and workshops are open to students (graduate
and undergraduate) of different disciplines.
Q: Do we have to have prior experience before attending the workshops?
A: No, no prior experience is necessary to participate in the conference
workshops.
Q: Do we have to have special equipment to participate
to the workshops and site visits?
A: No, although you are encouraged to bring your laptop - at your own
risk - to enable you to prepare the work that will be requested during the
workshops. The organizers in principle will provide Wi-Fi connection, printers,
scanners, projectors and sketching tools to use during the workshops. You
are also encouraged to bring your own sketching tools - at your own risk
(please do not bring expensive tools that may be lost during the workshops).
Please notice that wear hiking/mountain shoes with hard sole which will
cover the ankle are strictly required for the site visits of Wednesday April
1. We kindly request that you comply with this requirement, due to strict
safety regulations.
Q: May I register online?
A: Yes, please follow the instructions posted in the registation
website.
Q: We want to register but we are not sure if there are spaces available.
A: Yes, as long as registration is open and you can send your registration
form, there are still available spaces for the workshops and site tours.
Q: Is it possible to register without having to use a VISA? Can I make
a deposit or transfer instead?
A: Yes, by using the registration form in PDF
format and following the instructions in the form.
Q: How can I demonstrate/proove that I am a student and register with
the student rate?
A: You can use any form of identification form from your University,
a student ID, a letter from your University Department, or (for Greek students)
you can submit with your registration an YD
N105 by email or fax after filling out ALL the required boxes.
Please note that your registration is valid only when the above described
identification is attached. Failing to submit the requested identification,
or if you submit and incomplete form of identification, may result in an
invalid registration and therefore loosing your space.
Q: I am interesting in attending the workshops but I can only attend
2out of 3 days. Is that possible?
A: Yes, you may register and attend the two days of the workshops, although
we strongly recommend that you are there for the whole three days. We also
do not offer a discount for attending a portion of the workshops.
Q: I wish to register for the tours and site visits, but I cannot be
there the first day. Could I attend only for 2 days out of 3?
A: Yes, you can, although we strongly recommend that you attend the entire
program. We also do not offer a discount for attending a portion of the
program.
Q: Until now, I am not interested in registering for the workshops, but
I would like to attend the lectures. Is it possible
A: Yes, the lectures and documentary screenings are open and free to the
public. In case of overbooking the registered participants have priority.
The public sits on a first-come first-serve basis.
Q: How much of the program is presented in English?
A: The conference language is English. Some lectures will have simultaneous
Greek translation. The lecture and discussion at Papasotiriou bookstore
on March 31 will be in Greek with English summary translation.
Q: How much is the fee registration for a non-student guest?
A: Registration rates are listed in detail at the registration
website and registration forms.
Q: What does the conference registration include (meals, refreshments),
etc?
A: Meals and lunch breaks are listed in the program. In principle, meals
that are marked 'on your own' are not included. For the bus tours, the tour
bus is included, and for the day-trip to Aegina island, the bus and boat
tickets are included.
Q: I would like to book accomodation for my stay in Athens during Ecoweek.
Do I book on my own?
A: The conference registration
and hotel website has a list of recommended hotels. In case you wish
to check-in a different hotel, then you will have to search on your own.
Q: During the Ecoweek workshops I would like to stay at a youth hostel,
and I don't see this option on your website.
A: The conference registration
and hotel website has a list of recommended hotels. In case you wish
to check-in a different hotel or youth hostel, then you will have to search
on your own.
Q: To what degree is it possible to join the conference sessions on an
“a la carte” basis?
A: Registrations for individual sessions or events are not being accepted.
The only choice one has is to participate in either the tours & site
visits or the workshops or to register to attend both. No other choice is
offered at this time.
Q: Would you please send invitation letters to attend the conference?
A: ECOWEEK will not issue invitations to potential conference attendees.
All registrations will be issued a receipt confirming registration by ERASMUS
SA.
Q: May I ask another question?
A: Yes, please direct your questions to ecoweek
[at] ecoweek.gr . For other questions about ECOWEEK activity in general,
please visit our websites at www.ecoweek.org
or contact us at ecoweek
[at] ecoweek.gr.
PRESS
For Press Releases and other support press materials, please click here: [Greek] [English]
For Press Clips please click here: [Greek] [English]
For Press passes, please contact Ms. Faidra Matziaraki M: +30.694.7405280 and E: ecoweek [at] ecoweek.gr
We thank our media sponsors, the City of Athens, and the media in Greece in general for being so responsive and for their support in spreading the word of ECOWEEK 2009 this year. It has been a great pleasure working with you, and we hope that we will continue our cooperation.
Some media clips for ECOWEEK 2009:
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DOCUMENTARY SCREENING FOR SCHOOLS - ΠΡΟΒΟΛΕΣ ΓΙΑ
ΤΑ ΣΧΟΛΕΙΑ
Within the framework of the environmental awareness program that ECOWEEK
has been running in schools throughout Greece and Cyprus, ECOWEEK invites
High Schools to reserve seats for their students to attend the free screenings
of environmental documentaries for students only. Attendance is limited
and registration will follow a first-come-first-serve order. Priority will
be given to public schools
To reserve seats for your studens, please contact: ecoweek
[at] ecoweek.gr
Screening Program for schools only
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2009 at ATHINAIS (34-36 Kastorias street, Votanikos-Gazi
- metro: Keramikos). Admission free, with reservations only:
8:00-10:00 An Inconvenient Truth Oscar-winning documentary
by Davis Guggenheim with Al Gore on Global Warming (97' - Greek
Subtitles).
10:00-12:00 The 11th Hour New documentary by Leonardo
DiCaprio, with Leonardo DiCaprio, on Global Warming (93' - Greek Subtitles).
12:00-14:00 An Inconvenient Truth Oscar-winning documentary
by Davis Guggenheim with Al Gore (97' - Greek Subtitles).
Με την ευκαιρία του συνεδρίου και στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος περιβαλλοντικής
ενημέρωσης στα σχολεία στην Ελλάδα και Κύπρο που πραγματοποιεί η ECOWEEK
στα σχολεία σε όλη την Ελλάδα, η ECOWEEK προσκαλεί τα Γυμνάσια και Λύκεια
της Αττικής να παρακολουθήσουν τις προβολές που θα πραγματοποιηθούν αποκλειστικά
για τους μαθητές. Θα τηρηθεί σειρά προτεραιότητας με βάση την προκράτηση
θέσεων. Θα δοθεί προτεραιότητα στα δημόσια σχολεία.
Για να κρατήσετε θέσεις επικοινωνήστε με: ecoweek
[at] ecoweek.gr
Πρόγραμμα Προβολής αποκλειστικά για τα σχολεία
ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ 3 ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΥ 2009 στον πολιτιστικό πολυχώρο ΑΘΗΝΑΙΣ (Καστοριάς
34-36, Βοτανικός-Γκάζι - ΜΕΤΡΟ: Κεραμικός). Είσοδος Δωρεάν με προκράτηση
μόνο:
8:00-10:00 Μια Ενοχλητική Αλήθεια Βραβευμένο ντοκιμαντέρ του
Davis Guggenheim με τον Al Gore για την Υπερθέρμανση του Πλανήτη (97' -
Ελληνικοί υπότιτλοι).
10:00-12:00 Η 11η Ώρα Το νέο ντοκιμαντέρ του Leonardo DiCaprio,
με τον Leonardo DiCaprio, για την Υπερθέρμανση του Πλανήτη (93' - Ελληνικοί
υπότιτλοι).
12:00-14:00 Μια Ενοχλητική Αλήθεια Βραβευμένο ντοκιμαντέρ
του Davis Guggenheim με τον Al Gore για την Υπερθέρμανση του Πλανήτη (97'
- Ελληνικοί υπότιτλοι).
CONTACT US
For Registration inquiries, please contact:
ERASMUS CONFERENCES TOURS & TRAVEL S.A 1, Kolofontos & Evridikis str.,
161 21 Athens, Greece Tel.:+30.210.7257693 - Fax:+30.210.7257532 E-mail:
info [at] erasmus.gr
- Website: www.erasmus.gr
To contact ECOWEEK, please call:
Ms. Faidra Matziaraki M: +30.694.7405280 and E: ecoweek
[at] ecoweek.gr
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